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Skills – How do people know about skills and qualifications?
The world is undergoing a major transformation that requires new skills and qualifications, new ways for people to know about skills and qualifications, and new ways to acquire skills and qualifications. This toolkit is about skills and qualifications, and the benefits they provide for people in a changing environment. How do people know about skills … Continue reading
Data Literacy – Business leaders overestimate the capabilities of their workforce and their readiness to work with data
Data is a gold mine that can help the Intelligent Enterprise drive growth. Yet, while organizations continue to collect, store and analyze data, its real potential remains largely untapped. In fact, research from Forrester found that between 60 and 73 percent of all enterprise data is never analyzed. That said, it would be wrong to … Continue reading
Gender Higher Education Gap – A faster growth among women in participation but predominantly in the fields of education, and health and welfare
• The last few decades have been marked by faster growth among women in participation in higher education than among men, which has reversed gender inequalities in tertiary attainment in almost all OECD and partner countries. On average across OECD countries, 51% of 25-34 year-old women held a tertiary degree in 2017, compared to 38% of … Continue reading
Gender Essential Skills Gap – Over time, men are able to catch up with women in reading proficiency and make greater use of mathematics skills
Girls’ advantage over boys in reading performance peaks during adolescence, but then disappears by early adulthood. By contrast, boys’ advantage in mathematics performance increases steadily from age 9 to 27. Boys are more likely than girls to pursue academic programmes and occupations that make greater use of mathematics skills. Over time, men are able to … Continue reading
COVID and Reskilling – An opportunity ?
Containment measures imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19 have compelled businesses to lay off or significantly reduce the working hours of many workers. This is an opportunity to reskill workers so they are in a better position to tackle the new business, employment, and technological realities that will be more mainstream once the crisis is … Continue reading
COVID, Inequality and Billionaires – The net worth of eight American billionaires surged by over $ 1 billion in 2020
The net worth of eight American billionaires — the ‘pandemic profiteers’ — surged by over $ 1 billion in 2020. Eight of these billionaires — the “pandemic profiteers” — have seen their net worth surge by over $ 1 billion. They are: Jeff Bezos (Amazon), MacKenzie Bezos (Amazon), Eric Yuan (Zoom), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), John … Continue reading
COVID and Labor Market in US – CBO’s Projections : a loss of nearly 27 million jobs and 8 million exits from the labor force
CBO has developed preliminary projections of key economic variables through the end of calendar year 2021, based on information about the economy that was available through yesterday and including the effects of an economic boost from legislation recently enacted in response to the pandemic. In addition, CBO has developed a preliminary assessment of federal budget … Continue reading
COVID, Lockdown and Recession in US – “Automatic stabilizers” are workhorse antirecession programs
The Great Recession is remembered, and properly so, for its massive destruction of household wealth and job losses that reached over 800,000 in a single month. In just the fourth quarter of 2008, real GDP fell at an annual rate of 8.4 percent, while economies across the world were savaged by problems as bad as … Continue reading
COVID and Jobs in UK – Losses have disproportionately affected young people, women and the lowest paid.
Coronavirus is a public health crisis and the Government has rightly taken unprecedented measures to tackle it. This has included significant restrictions on much social interaction and economic activity. The result has been the sharpest spike in unemployment on record. There were one million claims for Universal Credit in a two week period, 7.3 times … Continue reading
Career Expectations and Skills – One in two disadvantaged students who saw themselves working as professionals or managers did not expect to pursue any tertiary education
Adolescence is a period when young people start to prepare for adult life. Teenagers have to make important decisions relevant to their working lives later on, such as what field of study or type of education they will pursue. But young people often lack sufficient knowledge about the breadth of job opportunities and careers open … Continue reading
COVID and Universal Basic Income – Would often not be an effective tool for reducing income poverty OCDE says
Recent debates of basic income (BI) proposals shine a useful spotlight on the challenges that traditional forms of income support are increasingly facing, and highlight gaps in social provisions that largely depend on income or employment status. A universal “no questions asked” public transfer would be simple and have the advantage that no-one would be … Continue reading
COVID Global Impact on Jobs – Equivalent to 195 million full-time workers estimates ILO
X Since the first ILO Monitor, the COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated in terms of intensity and expanded its global reach. Full or partial lockdown measures are now affecting almost 2.7 billion workers, representing around 81 per cent of the world’s workforce. X In the current situation, businesses across a range of economic sectors are … Continue reading
Canadians and COVID – Statistics Canada has developed a new web panel survey
The novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) is having a profound effect on the health, behaviour and social activities of Canadians. Federal, provincial and territorial governments have recently introduced a series of measures to limit the spread of the virus, including physical distancing. To get timely information about how Canadians are coping with COVID-19, Statistics … Continue reading
COVID-19 in US – Over 37 million U.S. jobs may be vulnerable to potential layoffs in the short term
Almost 56% of US production and non-supervisory jobs (about 59.5 million jobs) offer weekly incomes below the $802 weighted average weekly income for all such jobs. Together, those low-quality jobs offer a weighted average of $539 in weekly income, or just over $28,000 per year. There is a subset of these workers, in jobs often … Continue reading
Asylum Seekers in EU, 2019 – 612 700, up by 12% compared with 2018 (549 000)
In 2019, 612 700 first-time asylum seekers applied for international protection in the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU), up by 12% compared with 2018 (549 000), but around half of the number recorded in the peak year 2015 when 1 216 900 first-time asylum applicants were registered. Syrian (74 400 first-time applicants) … Continue reading
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